He can only raise himself a quarter of his length, and cannot therefore bite the hand of the person who seizes him.
The second motive in Cristina of the lover who meets the true partner of his soul or hers, and either seizes the happy hour and possesses joy for ever, or misses it and loses all, is a favourite with Browning.
She seizes his sword and would have slain the villain.
Our appetites are rare in old age; a profound satiety seizes us after the act; in this I see nothing of conscience; chagrin and weakness imprint in us a drowsy and rheumatic virtue.
The virgin, astonished and attracted by the glittering apple, stops her career, and seizes the rolling gold.
The horizon draws suddenly nearer; the Steppe seems to contract, and a nameless terror seizes the heart of the wanderer.
When a delusion of this kind seizes the brain, it is likely to remain there, and to become stronger and deeper, and more difficult to remove, as the years go on.
He turns towards the door and she jumps up and runs to him and seizes his arm.
As he reaches the double-door, ROPER enters quickly at the right-hand door at the back and seizes his arm.
An astoundingly resolute woman that, and absolutely not to be stopped when an enthusiasm seizes her!
Once in a while, indeed, the vulgar prejudice seizes even me, and I suddenly grow tremendously active.
Defeated in his attempts to capture a nymph, Alberich scales the rock, seizes the gold and makes off with it.
This Way of Debating drives an Enemy up into a Corner, seizes all the Passes through which he can make an Escape, and forces him to surrender at Discretion.
I had not till then a Notion of the Earnings of Heart, which a Man has when he sees his Child do a laudable Thing, or the sudden Damp which seizes him when he fears he will act something unworthy.
Pleasure seizes the whole Man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him Leisure for any good Office in Life which contradicts the Gaiety of the present Hour.
The drunken husband, who has been in a gutter, goes to the pump to clean himself, and seizes a man's arm instead of a pump-handle.
Here Elihu, with remarkable force and clearness, seizes upon the very root of the matter on each side.
The Yakshini seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it.
He flies into a passion, seizes a hatchet, chops off their heads, and flings them into the fire.
The guests disperse, the Barin runs after them, and the golden-combed cock seizes the mill and flies away with it.
Eventually the hero seizes the sparrow and wrings its neck, but not before he has obtained from it the charm necessary for the recovery of his missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty.
In an instant the hero seizes it, and begins to blow it and to dance wildly around the Yakshini, fixing his eyes upon her and applying to her the words of her own spell.
Sometimes, when a husband of this kind has doffed his serpent's skin, his wife seizes it, and throws it into the fire.
She enters the hut and, after some short parley, seizes her pestle, and begins beating the hero with it until he falls prostrate.
She lifts her head and opens her mouth, whereupon heseizes the sword and cuts her head off.
The heroes seizes the Snake, which takes them to the healing lake, and they are cured.
This is as far back as the days of Lord Coke; and the rule has been carried so far as to protect the citizen of one of the belligerents, who, without any letter of marque at all, goes on the ocean and seizes the property of the enemy.
As soon as the egg arrives at the cloaca one of the feet seizes it and lowers it gently into the nest, while the second foot seizes another egg, which during this time had appeared at the orifice.
It seizes a large sponge and maintains it firmly over its carapace with the help of the posterior pair of limbs.
The author already quoted believes that the Pompilius seizes its captive by the pedicle which unites the abdomen to the cephalothorax, and that it triturates this point between its jaws.
With his anterior paws heseizes by the head the first dog who approaches him, and, as he is more solidly balanced than his assailant, he holds the dog's nose beneath the water as long as he can.
He excavates a conical pitfall, in which he conceals himself, andseizes the unfortunate ants and other insects whom ill-chance causes to roll into it.
Man goes still further; necessity or curiosity transcends the boundaries set by superstition: he seizes the knife, takes courage, and the masterpiece of nature is discovered, even man.
The cold horror that seizes on the man who is about to commit some crime, or who has just committed one, is nothing else than the horror which agitates the feverish man, and which is felt on taking nauseous medicines.
It is a well-known law of the connection between ideas that every sensation, of whatever kind, immediately seizes another of its kind, and enlarges itself through this addition.
Mr. Parsons' portraiture seizes every shade of it, seizes it with unfailing sympathy.
When a calf takes a teat into its mouth, it makes the tongue and palate by which it seizes it, play upon the teat by alternate pressures or pulsations, while retaining the teat in the same position.
Such a trembling seizes me for half an hour, that I cannot rise and look at the clothes which seem to me shrouds and winding sheets.
The mother seizes at once on this, and joins to it a still more powerful persuasion.
We may see, too, in a totally different sphere of experience, how Catullus instinctively seizes the moment of supreme intensity of emotion, and utters what is vitally characteristic of it.
If the judge seizes the women, we shall depart without their knowing us or being able to denounce us.
He seizes into his own hands under the mask of a conge d'elire the appointments to the bishoprics.
As soon as the marten seizes the bait, a trigger is touched, and a heavy piece of wood falling upon the animal, crushes or holds it fast.
It lies concealed at the bottom among the roots of flags and nymphæ; and when any small fish chances to pass it, by means of its long neck darts out its head and seizes upon its unsuspecting victim.
John seizes his hat, pushes it down over his eyes and rushes forth distracted with the conjecture as to what terrible thing he has been guilty of to make his wife look so like an injured martyr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seizes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
